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101 " Without observation, there is no life. "
― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar
102 " He nodded to the bird, conspiratorially, as if what had just transpired had all been on purpose. The duck had nodded back. "
103 " If there was one thing Serbs could never abandon, it was their dangerously poetic and causal manner of cussing. "
104 " Ladies and gentlemen, we are all equal rights. No one can tell us how to make difference from others. We are all made from the same branches of trees. We are all human branches. Past is past, future is future. Man is man. Women is women. "
105 " Routine had a way of erasing intamacy’s quiet particulars. "
106 " Life spills across generations in the simplest of ways. "
107 " I sing the body electric;The armies of those I love enforce me and I engirth them,They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,And did corrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass "
108 " War happens for only one reason: we cannot see past our own death. "
109 " The only thing I am certain of is uncertainty itself and of this I cannot be certain. PER ROED-LARSEN, Spesielle Partikler "
110 " It was often easier to discover someone through his books rather than his words, to see the overlap and divergence between ones taste and another’s and then to triangulate the rest of that person’s self appropriately. "
111 " The world is as we perceive it. "
112 " When did a book - ushered across linguistic oceans by the unsteady stoop of translation - stop being the same book? "
113 " Speech is not a prerequisite for comprehension. "
114 " What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. "
115 " The child, as only a child can do, changed everything in an instant. "
116 " Her language was uniquely her own, an island of marooned expression. "
117 " If I’ve learned anything in my life, it’s that comprehension is not an idea, it’s an act. You must be able to use what you understand. "
118 " It was like I saw the world, in a different light, a different set of possibilities. Suddenly there was a way for me to be me. "
119 " He had lived long enough to know that pain never appears in dreams. "
120 " And yet sometimes we become the person we most dread. Or maybe we dread most the person we know we are to become. 11. "